I tried Sidux for the first time, and I'm REALLY impressed... It's lightning fast!!!
I'm not sure why, but it boots to desktop so quickly you'd say something is not right.
And it's the snappiest desktop experience I've had.
And, it has a script - smxi - that does graphic driver install&configuration, kernel choosing, distro upgrading, cleaning, adjusting, safely removing and more.
And, it's rock stable AND bleeding edge.
And, it has a very informative manual.
And...

In short: I (humbly) suggest that Clem & the Crew take a deep look at Sidux; it's a different philosophy than Mint, but it could provide a couple of ideas, I think.
Otherwise, it would just be interesting to hear your impressions.

Hi now a days almost every disto trying to shorten boot process opensuse did that perfectly now as you said sidux.Well overall mint also doing gr8 job.And as i think mint 4 ll raise up definately on distrowatch after release.There are many changes clem did in mint 4.Thanks

Hi yes you can say distrowatch ranking is pointless.But here almost everyone following that only.In every forum or article they are talking with respect to that.Anyways yes true debian is faster.But buddy do you really think we should change distro often for some new feature?Thanks

you can say distrowatch ranking is pointless.But here almost everyone following that only.In every forum or article they are talking with respect to that

I would not argue about this, your just showed that you don't know jack abut how they manage the ranking and is not only pointless it is stupid, it only shows how many people click on the name of a distribution.

Anyways yes true debian is faster

reliable, stable, secure and so much more

do you really think we should change distro often for some new feature?Thanks

by your answer I presume you are using the first version of Linux that came out